Moncef Marzouki

Moncef Marzouki (7 July 1945-) was the President of Tunisia from 2011.

Biography
Moncef Marzouki was born on 7 July 1945 in Grombalia, Tunisia, the son of an Islamic Qadi (lawmaker). His family moved to Morocco due to political issues and Marzouki was educated in Tangier, and he also travelled to South Africa to study its transition from apartheid while in the Tunisian League for Human Rights. In 1993 he aided in the construction of the National Committee for Liberties and in 2011 he was made President of the Arab Commission for Human Rights. In December he was elected as the interim President of Tunisia with 155-3 and Hamadi Jebali was made his Prime Minister. During his tenure, he fought against loyalists to the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi who had fought with the Tunisian Army in border clashes near the border with their home country of Libya.